We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFlattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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